MythTV and FireWire (was: Comcast/Mythtv)

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 12:14 -0500, John Boland wrote:
> on a mostly/kinda/sort of related note:
> 
> i'm running mythdora 5 and i'm trying to get it talk to my cable box which
> has a firewire port.  it is a motorola 3416.  i wnet over to microcenter
> this weekend and picked up a firewire card.  unfortunately, i can't get the
> o/s to recognize the card. i get kernel errors flooding /var/log/messages
> saying uhci_hcd problems, controller error, pci system problems.
> i've tried upgrading the mythdora o/s. however, it fails on a vmlinuz
> dependenct that i haven't been able to resolve.  so, not being one to shy
> away from over complex solutions...  i put another hd in the box and
> installed fedora 9 and mythtv from the atrpms.  i still get the same kernel
> messages and my pvr-350 card went missing!
> so, i'm thinking i don't have a good or supported firewire card. it is an
> ads tech dual-link pci card.  the server i'm using is limited to pci.
> can anyone recommend a decent (cheap) firewire pci that will work with
> mythdora 5 (2.6.24.4-64) and an intel mobo?

Anything with a TI chipset should be solid. As should anything w/an
Agere FW323. I'm less supportive of Via and JMicron chipsets (though all
my JMicrons are fully functional now), and would stay away from ALI
chipsets like the plague.

I'm actually curious to know what's on the ADS card, would rather like
to poke at it, if its truly bonkers...

Nb: as of last Friday, I can actually pull video off my cable box using
the new "juju" firewire stack Fedora has been shipping instead of the
old ieee1394 stack, for the first time EVER. :) MythTV doesn't seem to
handle it quite right yet (says a buddy), but test-mpeg2 from
libiec61883 pulls video perfectly. Poking MythTV is on my todo list for
the holiday weekend...

--jarod